Good stories!

We used to have rabbits too. We loved them so much!

Our first rabbit was Taddy, a dark brown Netherland dwarf. She didn't last too long cause one day she hid in the yard from us, we couldn't find her, then at nite she was killed by racoons

Our (really my daughters) next rabbit was Bitsy, she was a seal point lop - so cute! She lived out in our yard, but climbed into her hutch at nite. She ate all the flowers. Used to come in the house and play too. One time, this is old days early 90's, she came in the office and chewed my mouse cord and blew the mother board on my computer. The computer was under warrenty from IBM so I put a new mouse on and called for service. They put a new $1000. motherboard in, covered on the warranty. In the old days, due to a design defect/deficintcy, hot unplugging a perifiral could blow the board.
Bitsy was a real cool bunny.

We got a friend for her when she was a year old. Hoppy was a cute tiny baby, we had her for about 2 weeks and some piger stole her from our backyard hutch. We were so sad

Then we got Pokey a small black bunny. The bunnys were so cute and played in the yard and house. They were like little dogs but quiet!

After a few years they both got sick. Started tipping over and wierd stuff like that. We found a real smart rabbit vet and she found that they had Cerebral Larva Migrans. It's a parasite that is in raccoon poop and the bunnys must have eaten some anyhow this parasite gets into the blood stream and passes the blood brain barrier and develops into a larva that tunnels thru the brain and randomly destroys brain tissue.

Moral of the story don't let rabbits outside and don't eat raccoon poop!

 

Isaac also loved to chew on electrical wiring. He would sit and munch on electrical cord, stripping it clean to the copper wire. I'd touch the expoxed cord and it would knock me up against the wall. The little dude loved that juice.

Nancy-

We should start a rabbit story miniforum with this thread. I'm a CO now. Anybody else that posts rabbit recipes, like E Ticket, I'll have banned.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Raptor
Isaac also loved to chew on electrical wiring.

 

JD would eat anything -- anything! He especially liked hamburger. People would say to me "Rabbits don't eat meat." I'd reply "Oh, yeah, watch this."

Archie would get up on his hind legs and beg for food. We'd say "Dance, Archie, dance. He'd put his front paws in the air and dance around in a circle. It was the damnest thing you ever saw.

 

Ours would eat cat food any chance they got. Bitsy danced for treats but especially liked any expensive plant I was foolish enough to put in the yard.

She would also come into the house and plop on the couch, she chewed it up pretty bad, I needed an excuse for new furniture!

 

Boy do I know that tune. All of our rabbits loved to chew on wood furniture. And JD also ate catfood. Jamaica would really get pissed off when he'd catch him eating his food.

I used to take Isaac into the office in a gym bag and let him hop around on the floor. He would go from office to office visiting with people he knew. One time, my seretary, Sonya, introduced him to the company president: "Larry, this is Isaac, George's son. He used to be named Sonya, after me, until George found out he was a boy." Imagine the president of a $500 million a year corporation shaking a rabbit's front paw and saying "Nice to meet you, Isaac."

 

People would come over to our place on the beach and JD would race up to greet them and sit up and beg to be petted on the head. People would say "WTF?"

 

Wow....I wish I could have a pet rabbit. They always seem to scream like mofo-s when they meet my other pets. Then again, they usually are the fod





BTW.....I love rabbits. That's why I have a hard time feeding them to my girl.